CAVE Art

Pattern Portraits: Cork

Pattern Portrait: Cork is an audio-visual composition continuously developing its form through the musical and visual exploration of the rhythmic cycles and patterns generated by the traffic data of a Cork City motorway and the water levels of the River Lee. Each automobile on the highway at a given time is represented by both a note and an image. The river levels determine the drone volume. This data is sent to each Possibility Box where the performers improvise with synthesis, timbre and real-time video.

Pattern Portrait: Cork was composed for CAVE (Cork Audio Visual Ensemble). The ensemble performs this piece using the Possibility Box, a newly designed real-time instrument in a wooden box featuring potentiometers, switches and distance sensors with a Raspberry Pi at its core.